2008 XX-XX United Press International In a landmark case, a recent civil action has resulted in a person being successfully sued for having a negative opinion. Said the plaintiff's attorney: "Look, everyone knew that the defendant had a poor opinion of my client. He didn't precisely say this explicitly, but it was evident in his conduct and manner. The defendant is a well-respected member of his community, and so this implied reputation had a direct negative effect on my client, both from a social and (more importantly) fiscal perspective. Knowing that the defendant didn't like my client in the least, prospective employers would view this negatively, either preventing my client from getting a good job, or reducing the scope of compensation offers. We are fortunate to have found a judge who understood the nuances of this case." Based on extensive precedent set in the Civil Rights litigation of the 20th century, it became de facto illegal to dislike someone if they were of an oppressed minority of any type. It was practically foreordained that this would be expanded to eventually apply regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. What happened here today is expected to be repeated across the country shortly.
IIRC the amount of debris and uncontrolled objects in LEO is already a bit of an issue.
Currently, if your multimilliondollar satellite dies, it's another piece of space junk.
One of these systems dies, it's 100+ pieces of space junk.
While I can see the value in the redundancy and survivability of such a system, the impact on the future LEO environment and, for that matter, ground based astronomy is probably not zero...
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications [smarmy sarcasm clipped] Still, so long as you want to run Microsoft programs at Microsoft prices, Windows is the operating system for you!
To expand on the OP, here's what usually runs on my home system:
Sid Meier's Pirates! World War 2 Online World of Warcraft Europe Universalis 2 Rome Total War City of Heroes Toontown RRT2 Hearts of Iron 2 Crusader Kings Disciples 2 Homeworld 2 Halflife 2...and that's most of them. There are a ton of other games I have installed but don't play too often.
While my first reaction was "LOL check out the tinfoil hat on that dude", I had a second thought: so?
First, I don't see that the anti-globalization movement is explicitly non-violent. I have seen anti-globalization spokespeople glorifying that "we trashed these McDonald's" or "stomped (this or that) symbol of corporate greed". Coupled with flag-burning, violent confrontations with people with opposing views, and overtly violent language...well, let's just say if agents provocateurs infiltrated the local Lions Club, you STILL wouldn't have violence. Agents like this are like vice cops dressed and acting like hookers, they only work when people are inclined to break the law ANYWAY.
More importantly: nice sleight-of-hand on your statement. Indymedia were publishing the pictures of undercover agents. I don't recall any pics of these agents causing havoc. The simplest explanation is that undercover cops are constantly used where uniformed officers cannot be. Simply put, undercover cop != "agent provocateur". So I guess we're back to your tinfoil hat.
I don't mean to knock down your strawman, but few people dispute global warming - they do dispute the politically motivated attack claiming it's humanity's fault.
As far as I can tell, "scientists" are human. And people in America are becoming more and more polarized Right and Left. Ergo, scientists are also becoming polarized. Coming from a more intellectualist Ivory-tower world, it's also inevitable that they tend to be more Liberal than Conservative. So frankly, no, I wouldn't say "Awww, them dang scientists. What do they know?" as much as "Awww, tehm dang scientists have spent the last 30 years telling us the sky is falling - first from population, then from the impending Ice Age, then from global warming....etc. So at a certain point, a rational individual remembers the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf and begins to doubt even so-called experts."
But hey, you know we red staters just love hearing how stupid you think we all are. Please, go on. Because your virulent attempts to demonize anyone with serious questions about global warming and its impact do SO MUCH to promote rational debate, don't they?
(And to your 2nd point, could I just ask if you think that the world is static and unchanging climatologically? New Orleans is a city built BELOW SEA LEVEL. In the long view, how sensible is that? Perhaps that's not the BEST poster child for how the "Bush Regime's" insensitivity to global warming is going to ruin the world. It's like the citizens of Pompeii blaming Titus for getting wiped out - perhaps the event (like a potential inundation of N.O. - was an inevitability given the location. Personally, on the long scale I tend to believe pretty much EVERY human edifice will be wiped out. Why do you believe the climato-geophysical processes on this planet should stop because Humans want it to?)
but damn, it's a resource hog. At least the last version I tried was. I have enough crap running doing my daily work on a WinXP system or a Win98 system that running OO instead of Excel + Word is problematic.
Granted, I know my MS OS is hogging more resources than it should, so perhaps running OO on a linux box would be great.
But as of this moment, I can't switch our company platforms to linux without ok from corp IT. I can experiement with OO but it simply wasn't "better enough" to make a difference, esp with the resource issue.
"FREE" is a motivator, but I'm willing to stick with MS for now (until they cram some more BS "license for limited duration" crap down our throats again...).
Why aren't the religious zealots freaking out about the "unborn" being unceremoniously dumped into a biohazard waste bin at the fertility clinic the same way they freak out if they experiment on it, possibly saving lives in the process?
Hm, you do understand that this (peripherally) IS why the "religious zealots" (plus quite a few reasonable people besides) ARE freaking out about abortion, right?
I mean, to quibble about the method of destruction is a little meaningless, like suggesting it's ok to shoot someone in the head, as long as you don't throw the body in the garbage afterward.
...which is in itself a hilariously patronizing view of middle america from what I'm guessing is one of the coasts?
Of course, if you called up the KCPD and said that you were being stalked/harassed in an online game they would immediately understand what you meant; whether they would/should care is another matter. that's clearly unresolved here in this forum, I don't see why it would be cut & dried for them either.
But hey, if it's easier for you to/point and/laugh at "them dumb rubes in the hicks" hey, go for it.
I think it's fine, to offer another textbook option for students. It's the free market. I can offer the entire list of textbooks printed scroll-like on a roll of aluminium foil, but it doesn't mean that anyone's going to take me up on it by buying my product. It's another choice for consumers to make, which is a good thing.
FWIW, I personally would never pay 2/3 of full price for a version of something that only lasts 5 months. However, caveat emptor, there may be new students with more money than sense who are unaware of the ability to resell textbooks later.
The pricing is stupid; on a cost-basis, if the student owns an ebook-reader, the cost of the text should be almost nil (FAR more than a 33% discount). If the student is leasing the e-book reader, then the price for that should be flat with a per-book fee.
NOTE: I will strenuously object when the time-limited ebook becomes the ONLY way one can get a text book, which is probably around the corner. But until then, I think it's good to have more options, even IMO stupid ones.
Your choices now are: (a) Scour the internet looking for an illegal copy of a movie and hope there are enough other people illegally downloading it to let you get it relatively quickly. (b) Wait for the show/movie to appear on broadcast/cable. (c) Rent the show/DVD from netflix and wait for it to arrive in the mail. (d) Go to a store and buy the show/movie on DVD.
There is currently no way to get legal, instant gratification for mainstream shows and movies. One option being proposed here is that you have legal access to download a show/movie, at very high speed, in exchange for some money and some bandwidth.
I really don't see what the fuck you people are complaining about. You are exchanging good and services, just like you do in the real world.
I'm sorry you can't download a copyrighted piece of content, for free, legally. Cry me a river.
Talk about missing the point. a) I don't understand your supposition of a person's being ENTITLED to ^instant^ gratification. You can't stop at a video store if you have that much of a desire to see a movie, for example? b) there is no *exchange* of goods and services - if I download their file and they torrent packets back upstream, they are USING my bandwidth without either asking or paying for it.
If you don't think B is a problem, please give me your address, and I'll set up a hot dog stand on your front lawn - I mean, you weren't actively USING that space, were you?
* for dispensing with a pedestrian "summary" of the facts in TFA in favor of hyperboic and hysterical misreading according to one's own personal filters, or as an attempt to induce such hysterics in others.
The only question, for/., would this be a '+' or '-' rating?
Torrents for files that are being freely distributed - sure, I can share my bandwidth, especially when I don't need it. Even patches for some commercial games I don't mind because it improves games I play.
Torrents for commercial files that are charging users for the download? Kiss my butt, unless you are paying me for the bandwidth.
...because China was clearly the technological leader in blue-water sailing, military technology, literature, the arts, etc. for centuries and look how they dominated the world!
Oh wait, no, that's not right. They ended up getting butt-raped by every Western society that went screaming past them on the industrialization ladder in the 18th and 19th centuries. Funny how that "technological dominance" didn't help them much?
Please. China has a gajillion problems of its own, not least of which is an outlook that peripheralizes and trivializes everything beyond it's own immediate boarders (Zhong-guo, anyone?). Taiwan is an issue to them because it's considered a domestic issue, NOT an international one.
I'll put money on a mediocre go-getter over a brilliant introvert any day. On the world scale too.
Don't be clear. Just put out popup and flash ads all over the web: "We're going to lose all sorts of classic 1970s Eros unless you contribute! Click to save the Eros data"
You'll get $1 million just from people who think they are saving classic pr0n collections.
Slashdot Mirror
2008 XX-XX
United Press International
In a landmark case, a recent civil action has resulted in a person being successfully sued for having a negative opinion. Said the plaintiff's attorney: "Look, everyone knew that the defendant had a poor opinion of my client. He didn't precisely say this explicitly, but it was evident in his conduct and manner. The defendant is a well-respected member of his community, and so this implied reputation had a direct negative effect on my client, both from a social and (more importantly) fiscal perspective. Knowing that the defendant didn't like my client in the least, prospective employers would view this negatively, either preventing my client from getting a good job, or reducing the scope of compensation offers. We are fortunate to have found a judge who understood the nuances of this case."
Based on extensive precedent set in the Civil Rights litigation of the 20th century, it became de facto illegal to dislike someone if they were of an oppressed minority of any type. It was practically foreordained that this would be expanded to eventually apply regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. What happened here today is expected to be repeated across the country shortly.
IIRC the amount of debris and uncontrolled objects in LEO is already a bit of an issue.
Currently, if your multimilliondollar satellite dies, it's another piece of space junk.
One of these systems dies, it's 100+ pieces of space junk.
While I can see the value in the redundancy and survivability of such a system, the impact on the future LEO environment and, for that matter, ground based astronomy is probably not zero...
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications
...and that's most of them. There are a ton of other games I have installed but don't play too often.
[smarmy sarcasm clipped]
Still, so long as you want to run Microsoft programs at Microsoft prices, Windows is the operating system for you!
To expand on the OP, here's what usually runs on my home system:
Sid Meier's Pirates!
World War 2 Online
World of Warcraft
Europe Universalis 2
Rome Total War
City of Heroes
Toontown
RRT2
Hearts of Iron 2
Crusader Kings
Disciples 2
Homeworld 2
Halflife 2
Linux = hello? WTF would I want to run Linux for?
Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. 2005-1985=20 years in my book.
Google is your friend, and not really that hard to use.
While my first reaction was "LOL check out the tinfoil hat on that dude", I had a second thought: so?
First, I don't see that the anti-globalization movement is explicitly non-violent. I have seen anti-globalization spokespeople glorifying that "we trashed these McDonald's" or "stomped (this or that) symbol of corporate greed". Coupled with flag-burning, violent confrontations with people with opposing views, and overtly violent language...well, let's just say if agents provocateurs infiltrated the local Lions Club, you STILL wouldn't have violence. Agents like this are like vice cops dressed and acting like hookers, they only work when people are inclined to break the law ANYWAY.
More importantly: nice sleight-of-hand on your statement. Indymedia were publishing the pictures of undercover agents. I don't recall any pics of these agents causing havoc. The simplest explanation is that undercover cops are constantly used where uniformed officers cannot be. Simply put, undercover cop != "agent provocateur". So I guess we're back to your tinfoil hat.
OP is "insightful" and not a troll? Please.
I don't mean to knock down your strawman, but few people dispute global warming - they do dispute the politically motivated attack claiming it's humanity's fault.
As far as I can tell, "scientists" are human. And people in America are becoming more and more polarized Right and Left. Ergo, scientists are also becoming polarized. Coming from a more intellectualist Ivory-tower world, it's also inevitable that they tend to be more Liberal than Conservative. So frankly, no, I wouldn't say "Awww, them dang scientists. What do they know?" as much as "Awww, tehm dang scientists have spent the last 30 years telling us the sky is falling - first from population, then from the impending Ice Age, then from global warming....etc. So at a certain point, a rational individual remembers the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf and begins to doubt even so-called experts."
But hey, you know we red staters just love hearing how stupid you think we all are. Please, go on. Because your virulent attempts to demonize anyone with serious questions about global warming and its impact do SO MUCH to promote rational debate, don't they?
(And to your 2nd point, could I just ask if you think that the world is static and unchanging climatologically? New Orleans is a city built BELOW SEA LEVEL. In the long view, how sensible is that? Perhaps that's not the BEST poster child for how the "Bush Regime's" insensitivity to global warming is going to ruin the world. It's like the citizens of Pompeii blaming Titus for getting wiped out - perhaps the event (like a potential inundation of N.O. - was an inevitability given the location. Personally, on the long scale I tend to believe pretty much EVERY human edifice will be wiped out. Why do you believe the climato-geophysical processes on this planet should stop because Humans want it to?)
but damn, it's a resource hog. At least the last version I tried was. I have enough crap running doing my daily work on a WinXP system or a Win98 system that running OO instead of Excel + Word is problematic.
Granted, I know my MS OS is hogging more resources than it should, so perhaps running OO on a linux box would be great.
But as of this moment, I can't switch our company platforms to linux without ok from corp IT. I can experiement with OO but it simply wasn't "better enough" to make a difference, esp with the resource issue.
"FREE" is a motivator, but I'm willing to stick with MS for now (until they cram some more BS "license for limited duration" crap down our throats again...).
You know, if women just walked around naked (in perfect lighting and airbrushed) the whole porn industry would collapse.
Well, ok, they'd have to tongue-kiss each other in passing, but that's a technicality, really.
No, no viral marketing going on here.
Nothing to see.
Please move along.
Why aren't the religious zealots freaking out about the "unborn" being unceremoniously dumped into a biohazard waste bin at the fertility clinic the same way they freak out if they experiment on it, possibly saving lives in the process?
Hm, you do understand that this (peripherally) IS why the "religious zealots" (plus quite a few reasonable people besides) ARE freaking out about abortion, right?
I mean, to quibble about the method of destruction is a little meaningless, like suggesting it's ok to shoot someone in the head, as long as you don't throw the body in the garbage afterward.
And that's a particularly good exercise of the ID method: miss the point, ignore the facts, and instead make a snide ad hominem attack.
Good for you! Keep that mind closed up tight!
Sure there are some mountain lions here or there, and a few wolves (that are mostly wolf coyote hybrids now), but they are all endangered species.
w olves_status_change.html
Wolves moved off the endangered species list: http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/s/c_fea_
Esp here in MN, wolves are seriously on the rebound. Heck, last weekend there was a pack of at last a dozen in the woods outside my cabin.
Besides that, you're right - the top-tier predators are mostly gone, with a resultant overabundance of the top-tier prey animals.
...which is in itself a hilariously patronizing view of middle america from what I'm guessing is one of the coasts?
/point and /laugh at "them dumb rubes in the hicks" hey, go for it.
Of course, if you called up the KCPD and said that you were being stalked/harassed in an online game they would immediately understand what you meant; whether they would/should care is another matter. that's clearly unresolved here in this forum, I don't see why it would be cut & dried for them either.
But hey, if it's easier for you to
South Korea:
area - 98,000 sq km (about the size of Indiana)
GDP $925 billion
USA:
area - 9,600,000 sq km
GDP $11750 billion
USA 100x the area
USA 10x the economy
Korea = better broadband infrastructure != surprise.
But I'll trust this when one of the researchers claiming success has his/her own (critical, sensitive to failure) surgery using this method.
Oddly, researchers note that this effect is voluntary and quite frequently self-induced.
I mean, after several HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of people have ridden it, doesn't it cease to be called "Virgin"?
Or is it like that whole white-wedding-dress thing?
I think it's fine, to offer another textbook option for students. It's the free market. I can offer the entire list of textbooks printed scroll-like on a roll of aluminium foil, but it doesn't mean that anyone's going to take me up on it by buying my product. It's another choice for consumers to make, which is a good thing.
FWIW, I personally would never pay 2/3 of full price for a version of something that only lasts 5 months. However, caveat emptor, there may be new students with more money than sense who are unaware of the ability to resell textbooks later.
The pricing is stupid; on a cost-basis, if the student owns an ebook-reader, the cost of the text should be almost nil (FAR more than a 33% discount). If the student is leasing the e-book reader, then the price for that should be flat with a per-book fee.
NOTE: I will strenuously object when the time-limited ebook becomes the ONLY way one can get a text book, which is probably around the corner. But until then, I think it's good to have more options, even IMO stupid ones.
Your choices now are:
(a) Scour the internet looking for an illegal copy of a movie and hope there are enough other people illegally downloading it to let you get it relatively quickly.
(b) Wait for the show/movie to appear on broadcast/cable.
(c) Rent the show/DVD from netflix and wait for it to arrive in the mail.
(d) Go to a store and buy the show/movie on DVD.
There is currently no way to get legal, instant gratification for mainstream shows and movies. One option being proposed here is that you have legal access to download a show/movie, at very high speed, in exchange for some money and some bandwidth.
I really don't see what the fuck you people are complaining about. You are exchanging good and services, just like you do in the real world.
I'm sorry you can't download a copyrighted piece of content, for free, legally. Cry me a river.
Talk about missing the point.
a) I don't understand your supposition of a person's being ENTITLED to ^instant^ gratification. You can't stop at a video store if you have that much of a desire to see a movie, for example?
b) there is no *exchange* of goods and services - if I download their file and they torrent packets back upstream, they are USING my bandwidth without either asking or paying for it.
If you don't think B is a problem, please give me your address, and I'll set up a hot dog stand on your front lawn - I mean, you weren't actively USING that space, were you?
1 point Hysterical*
/., would this be a '+' or '-' rating?
* for dispensing with a pedestrian "summary" of the facts in TFA in favor of hyperboic and hysterical misreading according to one's own personal filters, or as an attempt to induce such hysterics in others.
The only question, for
...but I am willing to return in kind.
Torrents for files that are being freely distributed - sure, I can share my bandwidth, especially when I don't need it. Even patches for some commercial games I don't mind because it improves games I play.
Torrents for commercial files that are charging users for the download? Kiss my butt, unless you are paying me for the bandwidth.
The Russians didn't build any office buildings more than say, 15m wide and 2 stories?
I suppose if all your structures are quonset huts and machine sheds, that works.
....maybe now the price of those real human women will finally come down.
...because China was clearly the technological leader in blue-water sailing, military technology, literature, the arts, etc. for centuries and look how they dominated the world!
Oh wait, no, that's not right. They ended up getting butt-raped by every Western society that went screaming past them on the industrialization ladder in the 18th and 19th centuries. Funny how that "technological dominance" didn't help them much?
Please. China has a gajillion problems of its own, not least of which is an outlook that peripheralizes and trivializes everything beyond it's own immediate boarders (Zhong-guo, anyone?). Taiwan is an issue to them because it's considered a domestic issue, NOT an international one.
I'll put money on a mediocre go-getter over a brilliant introvert any day. On the world scale too.
Well Duh.
Don't be clear. Just put out popup and flash ads all over the web: "We're going to lose all sorts of classic 1970s Eros unless you contribute! Click to save the Eros data"
You'll get $1 million just from people who think they are saving classic pr0n collections.